A mode of cyberbullying similar to outing in that it has an element of deception in the act by which the perpetrator purposely deceives the victim tactfully.
Published in Chapter:
Workplace Cyberbullying and Its Impact on Productivity
Karthikeyan C. (T. John College, Bengaluru, India)
Copyright: © 2021
|Pages: 18
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-4912-4.ch010
Abstract
In this chapter, the author presents a very sensitive socio-psychological issue of workplace cyberbullying and the ways the employers try to discipline cyberbullying. The technology and digital media access have brought in speed, accuracy, and accessibility to everyone and anyone across the world in a work setting simultaneously brought in the dangerous culture of cyberbullying, which negatively impacts productivity. The author takes up some of the critical issues like browbeating, berating, stealing, excluding, dissing, doxing, snide, threatening, victim, bully, stress, stalking, flaming, outing, and trickery to clarify as to how the workplace cyberbullying issues happen inside the workplace.